Receptacle.



CHARLES COCHRAN, 0F MEADOW, OREGN'.

RECEP'EACLE.

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Application filed Maren 2, 19M. Serial No. ZLSMSS.

T0 @ZZ whomJ it may concern Be it known that l, CnAnLEs Coni-nein, e citizen of the nited States, residingl et Meadow, in the county oi. Crook and State of Oregon, liave invented certain new and iiseitul Improvements in Receptacles, 'of which the following is s speeiiication7 reference being had to the accompanying drowm ings. 'Y

This invention relates to certain iinprovements in. receptacles normally sealed and especially designed and adapted i'or use to contain a i'luid substance and particularly condensed or evaporated. mille; and the ob ject of the invention is to provide novel end improved means whereby the vente produced in an end of such receptacle may be dlosed when not in use whereby the ingress et dirt, insects or the like is eifectually preventeolu The invention consists in the details oi construction and in the combination and errangement. of the severel parts of my im proved receptacle whereby certain important advantages ere attained and the device is rendered simpler less expensive end otherwiselmore convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter incre fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined'in the appended claim.

ln order that my invention may he the better understood, l will nov.7 proceed to describe the seine with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Fignre l is a view in top pien, with a part in section, of a receptacle constructed in eccordance With en embodiment oi my' invention7 the closure member being shown by full lines in inoperative position and indicated by dotted lines in operetive position; Fig. 2 is'A o view in side elevation oi the closure member, the coactingF portions ofthe receptacle being indicated by dotted lines; and Fig. 3 is aA top plan view oit such mero ber. l

As disclosed in the accompanying: drevw ings, l denotes a receptacle oi any chnventional form but herein shown :is in the nav ture or' a can generally employed to contain evaporated or condensed milk or the lilre having produced in one or' its ends or heeds 2 the diainetrically opposed openings 3MB,

which afford a means whereby the contents f such receptacle or can Ina-y be discharged, it being` readily understood that one or" such openings serves es an air vent. in order to close such openings 3MB when the device is not in use toprevent ingress Within the re ceptacle or canal of dirt, insects or the like, l Find it or particular advent-ege te employ an elongated stripk l oi Width snilieient to entirely close the openings SW3 and having its opposite efstreniities terminating in the segmental anges 5-5 adopted to snugly bear against the engaging ilange (i of the adjacent hetid or closure il whereby it will be readily perceived that such strip Il: is capable of arial rotation Wherehy' the openings 3-3 may he uncovered when it is desired to.

discharge the contents of the receptecle or con. lihile the strip l is capable of arial rotation, it will also be readily perceived that should the occasion so. require, such strip is possessed of sniiicient resiliency es to permit it beingl detached from the receptacle or applied thereto.

From the foregoingr description it is thought to be obvious that a receptacle conl strncted in accordance with an embodiment of my invention is of an extremely simple ond comparatively inexpensive nature and is particnlariyjvell adapted for, use by reason oi? the convenience end facility with which 1t performs its functions, end it W'll else be obvious that my invention is sus eptible et seine change and modification Without mem terial departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason wish to be understood es limiting inyselzl to the precise arrangement and ornontion oit" the several parts herein shovvn in carrying out my invention in practiceri I claim:

In combination with a receptaele'having its ends normally closed and having diametrically opposed openings produced in the peripheral portions of one oi the ends, n closure member for said opchineesJ mounted upon the receptacle and capable oir" iininter rnpted ariel rotation7 seid member oomprw ing; en elongated tiet member terminatirnii5 at iter` opposite extremities in segmental flanges adapted .to snugly bear egeinst the periphery ot the receptecle, and iioiinnily' do not i holding the member against'niovement away In testimony whereof hol'onnio uflx my from the recepetacle, said melrjber having its -signatnic in the preSonvo of two witnesses.

under surface free and uno structod, the 1 1 w i T segmental zmges of the closure member a- (JHAR'MJS Coi/BRAB ording the only connection with the re- 'Vtnessos: cepta'ole and capable of free axial rotation G. H. CieAsswHi'in, ielutive to the receptacle. 1 Fimo. G. Ivhmm'm. 

